說法本身不自相矛盾
把鏡頭從時間轉到內部：不是前後幾次一樣，而是同一套說法裡面的各個部分彼此對得上，沒有一句推翻另一句。穩定的意思沒變，只是這次比較的對象在同一份文件裡。
not self-contradictory · adjective · C2
A consistent argument or idea has no parts that go against each other.
前後一致的；不矛盾的
核心畫面
Picture measuring the same thing again and again and getting the same reading each time — the line stays level, nothing jumps. Consistent is that steadiness: whether you look at a person's work, a trend over months, or two statements side by side, the parts agree with each other instead of pulling apart.
可以想成：同一件事量了一次又一次，每次讀出來的數字都差不多，線是平的，沒有忽高忽低。consistent 說的就是這…更多收起
可以想成：同一件事量了一次又一次，每次讀出來的數字都差不多，線是平的，沒有忽高忽低。consistent 說的就是這份穩：不管看的是一個人的表現、幾個月的走勢，還是擺在一起的兩句話，各個部分互相對得上，不會自己打自己。From the picture
固定說法：與另一件事相符
這個意思要靠後面的 with 才成立：拿一件事去對另一件事，兩邊對得上。少了 with something，consistent 不會單獨表示「相符」，所以要把整個句型一起記。
matching another fact · adjective · C2
If one fact or idea is consistent with another, the two match or fit together well.
與…相符
Also in this word
steady, reliable · adjective · C2
Always behaving in the same way, or always keeping the same good standards.
穩定的；始終如一的
developing steadily · adjective · C2
Happening or developing steadily in the same direction over a period of time.
持續一致的
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
consistentadj/kənˈsɪs.tənt/
- 1
Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
- The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
- He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!
- 2
Compatible, accordant.
- As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, ſo I could not be content now, but I muſt go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to purſue a raſh and immoderate Deſire of riſing faſter than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I caſt my ſelf down again into the deepeſt Gulph of human Miſery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be conſiſtent with Life and a State Health of in the World.
- When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.
- 3
human-scienceslogicmathematicsOf a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
- When we ask whether ideas or terms are consistent or inconsistent with each other, the question really is, in what manner the relation presupposed between the ideas qualifies them for being combined as terms of a judgment.
- Part of establishing a foundation for geometry was demonstrating that the axioms were consistent – that they could never lead to contradictions.
consistentnoun/kənˈsɪs.tənt/
- 1
rareObjects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
- The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from Eaſt to Weſt? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from Weſt to Eaſt? How then can you make theſe motions being conferred on the Earth, of contraries to become conſiſtents?
- 2
historicalA kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.
- [F]rom the fourth century onwards, the Eastern Church divided penitents into four classes. […] The consistentes (the last class—συστάντες, consistentes) "stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens. Last comes participation in the sacraments (ἁγιασμάτων)."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。